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Re: [ANN] Kludgey workarounds for IE and Netscape

• From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:56:03 +0700

John Cowan wrote:
> 
> James Clark scripsit:
> 
> > If you want to use XSL to produce some non-XML format, first you need to
> > devise an XML representation of it.  For example, in the case of HTML,
> > this would be "well-formed HTML", that is XML using the element types
> > and attributes of XML [sic; HTML].
> 
> Almost, almost, but not quite!
> 
> Well-formed HTML is not quite well-formed XML, because of the possible
> presence of "&" and "<" in the CDATA elements SCRIPT and STYLE.

The term "well-formed HTML" as used in section 1 of the XSL WD does not
mean SGML that conforms to HTML 4.0. It means well-formed XML that uses
element types and attributes from HTML.

James


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